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05May

Review: His and Hers and Hers by Nona Raines

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His and Hers and Hers by Nona Raines

Link to buy

ASIN B00AB778KW

Story Rating: 4 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 1 out of 5

Review:

This was an emotional novella with charismatic and believable characters, an intricate plot, and some hot sex.

Because her childhood involved being shuffled from foster home to foster home, Cassie has built up walls around her heart that keeps people at bay. That is, until she has an encounter with her best friend, Kyla and her boyfriend, Jordon. Kyla is from a dysfunctional family herself and never wants to get married, but unlike Cassie, she is willing to make a commitment. Jordon’s family is much less dysfunctional, but his parents don’t like Kyla and keep hoping he will break up with her and are not above making digs at her at family events. Jordon loves Kyla and comes to love Cassie, but he doesn’t want to hurt his family by telling them to back off.

Can this trio find happiness or will the forces of the outside world tear them apart?

The only kink in this one is the relationship of having one man with two women. There is F/F action as well as F/M/F action, but do not expect any BDSM in this one.

Reviewed by Karen

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26Apr

Review: Foretold: Betrayed by Desire by ES Tilton

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Foretold: Betrayed by Desire by ES Tilton

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Story Rating: 3 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 1 out of 5

Review:

Seven races, a prophecy, an errant god and a dark force bent on corruption. What isn’t in this book? The story begins with six prologues. The reader immediately learns about a menacing villain trying to obliterate the god Kyron’s existence. The prologues hop around and give a bit of a frame work, but it’s confusing. The story finally begins with Kyra the assassin. She is completing one final job before she retires from the Red Pelican assassin’s guild. Her contact is Tahrek, another assassin.

This story is disjointed. The story goes off on tangents side stories and then suddenly plops the reader back into the main storyline. While these little detours provide good back history and world building, it’s cobbled together in a rather clumsy manner. The story is definitely non linear nor is it a multi-thread weaving into a cohesive pattern. It resembles a puzzle where the pieces are forced together when it should not be. It leaves most readers frustrated and perhaps a bit confused. If this wasn’t for a review, I would not have finished this book. I would have given up and written it as a “did not finish”. If I had done that, I would have lost out.

19Apr

Review: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Ranae Rose

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Ranae Rose

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ISBN 978-1-78184-070-2

Story Rating: 2.5 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 1 out of 5

Blurb:

The Classics Exposed…

The romantic story of the destruction caused by the frustrated love of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, set against the moors of England, creates a rare blend of violence, beauty and erotic love.

Heathcliff, an orphan, is raised by Mr Earnshaw as one of his own children. Hindley despises him but wild Cathy becomes his constant companion, and he falls deeply in love with her, discovering that he can tame her unruly nature. Their tumultuous but passionate romance is threatened by the Lintons, who are determined to civilise Cathy. She endeavours to be a lady when they are present, but is as wild as ever when they are not—and remains forever untameable by anyone other than her lover, Heathcliff.

When she will not marry him, Heathcliff’s terrible vengeance ruins them all—but still his and Cathy’s love will not die…

A story of doomed love and revenge with a brilliant new introduction of passion fulfilled.

You only pay for the words our authors have added—not for the original content.

Review:

I never read the original Wuthering Heights because it was never required reading in school and I never felt the desire to. Once I started reading this book for the review I found myself completely confused. I couldn’t tell what this author wrote versus the original. It was only during the first BDSM scene did I realize it was part of the new content written in the voice of Emily Bronte.

21Mar

Review: Willing Victim by Carla Blake

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Willing Victim by Carla Blake

http://www.amazon.com/Willing-Victim-Carla-Blake/dp/1781662614/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363903721&sr=1-1&keywords=willing+victim+by+carla+blake

ISBN-10:1781662614

ISBN-13: 978-1781662618

Story Rating: 0 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 1 out of 5

REVIEW

I got this book because I am a reviewer of BDSM books. This book had no BDSM and no elements of BDSM but it had some kinky moments (sex in public places). I didn’t care for the lack of chemistry between the main character Rachael and her main squeeze Kate. The plot focused on Rachael being a “willing victim”. I was looking forward to her being put in compromising positions as a submissive being dominated. It was very disappointing and to be honest I did not finish. I reached page 200 of 356 and totally lost interest.

It beings with Rachel alone in the basement of her office building. She is cornered by Kate and Kate confessed her true feelings to Rachael. Rachael is gay and so she accepts Kate’s offer to date even though she already has a boyfriend. Confused yet? Yeah, I was for a minute too. Simon, Rachel’s boyfriend was thrown in as a stalker type. So while Kate and Rachel are “snogging” in closets and bathrooms, in public, Simon is creeping around trying to figure out what she is up to. It wasn’t quite the lesbian erotica I am used to.

The writing was not terrible but when you are prepared to read a certain genre you want to look for those elements along with reading a spicy story. This story lacked the BDSM theme along with any heat whatsoever. I would not recommend this book to BDSM lovers.

Review by Sizzling Miss Kim

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18Mar

Review: Just Vamps by various authors

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Just Vamps by various authors

http://www.amazon.com/Just-Vamps-ebook/dp/B009RYCVOI/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1363580314&sr=1-1&keywords=just+vamps

ASIN B009RYCVOI

Story RatingL 1 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 1 out of 5

Review:

This anthology of 13 vampire-themed short stories falls sadly short of the mark.

Straight-off, be advised that it cannot be justifiably called a BDSM anthology; there’s hints of it here and there, but it’s overwhelmingly vanilla. One expects a little mind-control in vampire stories, and some biting, and a little pain, but that’s as far as most of the stories go. A few feature some fairly rough sex, and there are at least two double-penetration scenes. There’s light bondage – very, very light – in two or three of them. The level of BDSM kinkiness was about on a par with the average non-kinky vampire anthology. It doesn’t explore BDSM as a theme, and many of the stories ignore first-rate opportunities for perviness.

There’s two good stories here.

Melissa Hosack’s “Haunted”, the story of a necromancer called upon by a vampire to exorcise the ghost of his extremely hot best friend. It’s an unlikely and unique setup, the characters were all sexy, the sex was very hot, and the writing was on-point and at one point made me guffaw. I want more.

Naomi Clark’s “Soul Reunion” is also pretty good, with probably my favorite pair of hot vampire guys in the book, and a premise that, while not original, is handled well and with charm. I wish it had been longer, as I’d like to read more with this trio.

20Feb

Review: Bite Club by Amber Rose Thompson

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Bite Club by Amber Rose Thompson

http://www.amazon.com/BITE-CLUB-ebook/dp/B009V4AHQS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361369812&sr=1-1&keywords=bite+club+by+amber+rose+thompson

ASIN B009V4AHQS

Story Rating: 2 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 1 out of 5

Review:

Brandon, who is a vampire that lives off an allotted synthetic blood supply that is regulated by the government, hates humanity with everything in him. He meets a seemingly innocent girl, Trina, at Bite Club that he is drawn to and can’t seem t get her out of his head. After their first encounter where Brandon gets just a taste of her magnetic blood, he gets an invite to another club where he discovers that Trina is not only the owner but also a Mistress, and she wants to make him hers. Brandon resists at first but with the promise of real blood he surrenders himself.

For anyone who is looking for a BDSM experience this is not the book for you. It has a little bit of a power struggle (vampire vs. human), but that is about it. The characters are underdeveloped, and just when you think things are getting somewhere the book ends. There is one semi sex scene in the entire book, with seemingly the promise of more, but it never happens. This has the potential to be an awesome read but just falls short.

Reviewed by Jennifer E.

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11Feb

Review: Going Down Dirty by Kate Willoughby

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Going Down Dirty by Kate Willoughby

http://www.amazon.com/Going-Down-Dirty-ebook/dp/B0097D6MKI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360590765&sr=1-1&keywords=going+down+dirty

ASIN B0097D6MKI

Story Rating: 1 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 1 out of 5

Review:

This short story plays directly to a man’s fantasies. There is no plot to speak of, just a man hooking up with a hot super model and having monkey sex all over a hotel. The couple manage to find a way to have various forms of sex in the dining room, the glass walled elevator, the bathtub, and anal sex in the model’s suite. After a night of losing his inhibitions, Jake walks away to head back to his mundane life.

The closest this came to having any BDSM is when Jake smacked Valentina’s ass during anal sex.

This was a disappointing effort with no plot, no character development, no suspense and no HEA. It could easily have been an installment in a men’s magazine. It’s too bad, because the author writes well and could have made this something more.

Reviewed by Karen H.

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06Feb

Review: Deadly Crimson by Trista Ann Michaels

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Deadly Crimson by Trista Ann Michaels

http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Crimson-Spark-Magic-ebook/dp/B002TG4P2M/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360186137&sr=1-1&keywords=deadly+crimson

ASIN B002TG4P2M

Story Rating: 4 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 1 out of 5

Blurb:

Stacy has been ordered off her current drug case. Her superiors think the death of her best friend make it too personal. They’re right. Too personal to let it go. So Stacy takes matters into her own hands and investigates the Coven, the last place her friend was seen alive and where Stacy believes she got the drug. Her snooping leads her right into the arms of the gorgeous owners, who also happen to be the men she thinks might be behind the drug.

Jason and Vincent already know the Coven is being used as a distribution point, but when police detective Stacy shows up, they know time is running out for them to find the man responsible. This is no ordinary drug and the men responsible are no ordinary mortals. Jason and Vincent work together to distract Stacy and keep her occupied, and sated, while they track down the culprits.

But when Stacy is attacked, they have no choice but to come clean about the criminals, as well as themselves.

Review:

Deadly Crimson is a fast paced paranormal romance that hits a lot of great notes. Stacy is investigating the death of her best friend, unofficially of course. She has been booted off the case because she is too close to the situation. Her clandestine investigation leads her into the arms of the sexy nightclub owners, Jason and Vincent.

01Feb

Review: Bella Morte: A Beautiful Death Anthology by various authors

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Bella Morte: A Beautiful Death Anthology by various authors

http://www.amazon.com/Bella-Morte-Beautiful-Death-Anthology/dp/0615667619/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359729962&sr=1-1&keywords=Bella+Morte

ISBN-10:0615667619

ISBN-13: 978-0615667614

Story Rating: 1 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 1 out of 5

Blurb:

The Debut Launch Anthology from Hot Ink Press (an Erotic Imprint of Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly Publishing). Bella Morte: Make your nights sizzle like summertime and feed your desire with sensual illusion and fantastic stories in the Bella Morte Anthology. This anthology features stories from some of today’s freshest erotica romance authors. Bella Morte will leave your heart racing and your imagination running wild. Vampires, Genies, and Demon Hunters are the lovers of choice; guaranteed to bring a little death to everyone.

Review:

This anthology is a combination of short stories and poetry. There is no BDSM, although there is some F/F action and an orgy or two. Most of the stories are paranormal and erotic in nature and only the last one was worth the effort of reading. The poems include: Beautiful Death and Bella Morte, by Carly Wallace; Whispers in the Night by Jade Mira; and Night of Ecstasy by Harley de Luca, who is also the author of the poem, Taboo.

The first story, the Gypsy Princess, was written with such poor grammar that I wondered if the author, Samantha Bradie, spoke English as a second language. This one features F/F action as Gypsy Queen Rain seduces Jade on her 18th birthday, informs her she is a siren and sends her out to earn money as a prostitute. This sets the tone for the other stories, although most use better grammar.

The Devil went Down by Johnny Dahmer is about a female devil who has sex with men then dissects them, in a to-be-continued story. Meh.

31Jan

Review: Reaper’s Fragile Ego by Charisma Knight

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Reaper’s Fragile Ego by Charisma Knight

http://www.amazon.com/Reapers-Fragile-Death-Angel-ebook/dp/B008AQ593Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359611033&sr=1-1&keywords=reaper%27s+fragile+ego

ASIN B008AQ593Y

Story Rating: 2 out of 5 paddles

Sting Factor (kink): 1 out of 5

Blurb:

Death comes in various forms. Seductive and sometimes violent, the Reaper pervades into life like a thief in the night, and you’ll never know when he may strike. He holds a secret desire, one which has haunted him for a millennia, an obsession for an entity opposite of himself. If he could conquer her? Her powers of light and strength would complete his majesty of darkness.

After all, the Death Angel, Bane has a reputation to maintain, but how well will he deal with a blow to his fragile ego once he learns the truth about the object of his coveted obsession?

The Angel of Willpower, Willa Mae finds that her strength may be her downfall, as she fights hard to permeate mankind with the will to survive. In her quest to imbue hope and strength to those who despair, she steps on Death’s toes and he vows revenge on the dark beauty.

Review:

I’m not sure that I would categorize this as a true BDSM themed story. It’s short and even though there are only a handful of characters it still confused me. For me it wasn’t clear that Death, the Reaper, and Bane were the same person. Plus the characters weren’t very likeable to me; although this is so short it’s hard to feel any attachment to any of them.

One thing that bothered me were the terms like his “pleasure inducing tool” and her “tight cavern” or his filling every “nook and cranny of your pussy” during sex. And “weeping slit” always is a turn off to me, but that’s me.

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